Tally-card.



. MOKBNNA.

TALLY GARD.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 2s, 190e.

Patented July 13, 1909.

@JW/tuono@ EDWARD D. MCKENNA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TALLY-CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1909.

Application led July 23, 1908. Serial No. 445,013.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD I). lNICKnNNA, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tally- Gards; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to tally cards for scoring games of cards and has for its object the arrangement of a` tally card such as will receive coupons which are awarded the winners of the game at each table or for each game, as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a face view of my improved tally card; Fig. Q, is a face View of one of the coupon cards; and Fig. 3 is a face view of the tal-ly card with certain of the coupons arranged in position.

The improved tally card l may be made of paper or card board or of any desired material but is preferably the design and shape shown in the drawings, and is provided with a. guinmed face. The coupons which are illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 are arranged as one card, the card shown in Fig. being intended to be placed on table No. 23S and the other card upon table No. 39. As shown in the drawings, these coupons are arranged in pairs to be torn off when the game is finished and, when a game of eucher is played, each of the two winners out of the four players takes one of the coupons and places it in proper position upon the face of his tally card.

It will be seen that each card of the coupons is numbered to be left on ay certain table, the coupon card shown in the drawings being intended for table 3S and all players who reach this table play their contestants for the two coupons from each card during the game which is-played. In a game of eucher this tally card is used as follows: As before stated, one of the coupon cards 2 is placed on each of the tables used by the contestants, each player having one of the tally cards and at the completion of the first game, the two winners tear olf the lower coupons labeled Game l, each inserting or placing his coupon in the space reserved for this purpose on the tall-y card. The following players after they have contested in the second gaine at table 38 tear oil' the second set of coupons labeled Gaine 2 and place theln in spaces of their tally cards opposite the numbers 2. This method is proceeded with until the ten games are played and the coupons are all used and are placed upon the tally cards in the proper order. A specimen card is shown in Fig. atwhere it will be seen that the holder of such card has lost the first two games, has won the third and fourth games at tables 31 and 32, respectively, has lost the fifth gaine and has won the sixth to the tent-h games, inclusive, at tables 233-37, inclusive, respectively.

The coupon cards are arranged in the alternating colors of green and red, that is, the card placed upon table 3S is green, the card placed upon table 39, red, the card placed upon table No. L LO, green, and so on for all the tables. It will thus be seen that by making the coupon cards in different colors as described and establishing a rule whereby the coupons must be arranged in alternating colors upon the tally card, the tendency or practicability of cheating is obviated. It will be further observed that by providing the tally cards with gummed faces instead of placing the gum upon the rear faces of the coupons as is now commonly the case with coupons of all descriptions which are to be attached to some other surface, it will not be necessary to meisten the coupons with the tongue which often results disastrously, such as cutting of the tongue followed by blood poisoning, as the gum is very often adulterated with poisonous chemicals. It will be further seen that the coupons are dated and for this reason it would be impossible to detach a coupon bearing a certain date, say .l une 2, and place it upon a tally card given out at a eucher party given on a subsequent date, say June 3, without detection.

This tally card is not limited to the game of eucher alone but there are other gaines in which it may be used by a slight alteration of the printing and number of the coupons.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advanl tages of the invention, as dened in the appended claims.

I claim as my invention:

A tally card having a gummed face provided with a series of consecutively numbered spaces7 the spaces extending nearly across the entire Width of the card and the numbers being arranged at one edge or margin thereof opposite the respective spaces, and a series of couponcards in t\vo alternating colors and each comprising al double row of detachable coupons consecutively numbered to correspond with the spaces 'of the tally card, the several coupons of each card bearing a common table number and date.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses. v

EDVARD D; MCKENNAJ Titnesses DANIEL OAKES, EDMUND J. lVILsoN. 

